Ankara, March 30, SPA -- Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) swept local elections on Sunday but saw its primary vote fall, withPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan disappointed at the party losinga number of provinces and failing to win others it had targeted, DPA reported. With around 99 per cent of the vote counted as of Monday morning,the AKP had registered 39 per cent of the vote, compared to 23.2 percent for the main opposition Republican People's Party and 16.1 percent for the Nationalist Movement Party. The AKP's 39 per cent represents a fall of more than 7 per centcompared to the AKP's result in general elections in 2007. The AKP held onto Istanbul and the capital Ankara but lost theMediterranean city of Antalya.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/649285